Second Annual Bay Area Cogal ver. 2013

The second annual Bay Area Cogal will take in the finest roads the Peninsula has to offer. We’ll ride over the hills from Portola Valley, out to the coast, down to Santa Cruz or thereabouts, and then back for recovery beverages. We hope you can join us.

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The second annual Bay Area Cogal will take in the finest roads the Peninsula has to offer. We’ll ride over the hills from Portola Valley, out to the coast, down to Santa Cruz or thereabouts, and then back for recovery beverages. We hope you can join us.

@gaswepass Eff me, is it that far? 30 minutes on the freeway, it’s on my way to the start. But you’d have to get back which would eat up a bunch of time.

Too bad you are on the wee side, I coulda lent you a bike. Pacific Cycles is probably a good bet from where you’ll be in the City, just bop up 280 which lets you off South of Market. Or you could go on BART.

@Xyverz had someone send him this recommendation; they are farther but will delivery which adds to the total cost but is more convenient, depending on the balance of your time/money equation:

thinkin likely too complicated, really appreciate the generosity to offer picking me up and all. Pretty lucky to b gettin the saddle time on family vacation, a 4 hr expedition is pushing it(and that’s before I get lost coming back… )I’m just going to have to be creative on routing from the location I’m staying at.

@gaswepass Sadly, the rental place mentioned is down in Los Altos, a bit further away than the Cogal start-point. (Unless they have one closer to you…) That being said, I hear there’s a good climb up San Bruno Mountain, but I’m not sure if it’s paved or dirt. Marin’s full of stuff, but that’s across the GG Bridge from where you are. Hmmm. Milbrae Ave in Burlingame should be a nice climb, if you climb it all the way up to 280. It’ll have some 20% stuff near the top. I really don’t know much about the northern peninsula as I usually don’t ride further north than 84, unless I’m riding up to SF itself.

@pakrat Page mill is a wonderful climb, if not brutal at times. For somebody like me who is too fat to climb, it definitely grants satisfaction when I complete that climb. I am not a fan of the descent though. Steep and scary with lots of blind corners. Yes, I’m a pussy.

@gaswepass Will you be in SF or elsewhere? I have recommended Pacific Bicycle south of Market to people in the past for rentals, and they have reported satisfactory experiences. Sports Basement also rents in the City and is located near the GG Bridge, which offers convenient Marin County access. Don’t have any reports of experience with it.

rented from pacific bicycle yesterday. Big shout out- they went above and beyond- brought my printout from my latest fitting and they actually swapped the stem for me to counter the longer top tube of the rental rig. they also had an awesome carbon 650b santa cruz mtb flirting with me the whole time. it was a test, I think. crap- I still have to go back to return…

thx. Went today from southern sf to the headlands in marin. Riding briefly on highway 1 with no shoulder and 3 lanes of traffic was an unanticipated bonus feature of iPhone based routing on the fly. got lucky tho- the city and hills weren’t socked in despite the ongoing misting. Tomorrow more hills in some other direction…

@BStaz Yes the ride is on, hope you and your mates can join us. The route that’s posted is 185 km and 2900 m of climbing. I think we have come up with a couple small modifications to the route — primarily a different climb out of Santa Cruz, with less traffic — and that is not reflected in the route that’s posted. We’ll try to update that. So what we actually do might be slightly shorter, but at least 170 km. 2900 m of vertical is roughly the amount of climbing. There will be a range of abilities, and it’s no drop, so we’ll regroup on a regular basis.

Sorry I missed the ride, it looks like the route turned out awesome. I have yet to ride that far south on the coast. In my defense I took a rest day for this : http://app.strava.com/activities/68890110 So you know I didn’t slack off for the weekend. Looking forward to the write up and the next event.